Acrobatics can be said to be a very hard work, which requires a lot of skills and risks. Therefore, people in this line of work are actually very demanding, and the older they are, the greater the risk.
Around the Neolithic Age, acrobatics had sprouted in China. The labor skills formed by primitive people in hunting, martial arts and extraordinary physical ability created in self-defense and attack and defense are reappeared as a skill performance of self-entertainment games during rest and entertainment, forming the earliest acrobatic art.
Acrobatics scholars believe that the earliest acrobatic program in China was Flying Man. This is a cross-shaped hunting equipment made of hardwood fragments. Hunters of primitive tribes often use this rotating weapon to attack birds and animals. In the process of continuous throwing, they found that different crosses can "come and go" under the action of the wind, so they became the programs performed in the clan meeting of primitive tribes.
Many programs in acrobatic art are the refinement and artistry of life skills, labor skills and martial arts skills.
Hometown of acrobatics:
China's acrobatic art has a long history and is a valuable and excellent cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. There are many acrobatic towns in China, including Liaocheng in Shandong, Jianhu in Jiangsu, Zhoukou in Henan, Puyang in Hubei, Tianmen, Guangde in Anhui, Wuqing in Tianjin, Wuqiao in Cangzhou, Suning in Hebei and Bazhou.
But from the long history, solid mass base and influence at home and abroad, the most famous is Wuqiao in Cangzhou. According to the "Cangzhou Wuqiao County Records", in Wuqiao, Cangzhou, every festival, "lighting up for three days, setting off fireworks and performing acrobatics, officials have to stay up all night".